Facebook and Instagram boot close Trump ally Roger Stone for network of fake accounts
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/08/facebook-roger-stone-fake-account-network/
Facebook released its latest report detailing disinformation campaigns operating on its massive social network Wednesday and this one came with a few surprises. In the new report, Facebook disclosed that it had removed a network accounts linked to close Trump ally and former campaign advisor Roger Stone for “inauthentic” activity and coordinated fake accounts around the time of the 2016 presidential election. Facebook has since removed Stone’s own accounts from both Facebook and Instagram.
The accounts linked to Stone, who is set to go to prison next week, posted on a number of topics mostly from 2015 to 2017, including Florida politics, Wikileaks’ release of hacked Democratic National Committee emails, the 2016 races and Stone himself, “praising his political acumen, defending him against criminal charges.” Facebook removed 54 Facebook accounts, 50 Facebook pages, and four Instagram accounts linked to Stone and his close associates. The network ran related accounts on Twitter and YouTube as well.